1 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:16,040 Happy Monday, Pastor Matt, Pastor Chris are here back in 2 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:18,400 with you on the ERC Leftovers podcast. 3 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,520 How you doing man? Friends, it's potty time. 4 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:23,360 I've been wanting to say that for like 2. 5 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,280 Weeks because. You know, we're in staff meeting 6 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,720 prior to recording the podcast and then we're exiting staff. 7 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:32,200 Me, I'm like, oh, it's potty time. 8 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:36,240 And I think it's very clever and silly and I just wanted to say 9 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,120 it. So I said it today, it's potty 10 00:00:38,120 --> 00:00:41,640 time. That is not the open that you 11 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:42,960 told me you were going to go with, no. 12 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,320 It's not. But you know, the weird things 13 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:48,760 that pop into my head and I just have to do that. 14 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:52,240 I have to Great. I have to Matt. 15 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:56,120 Off to a shining start as as usual. 16 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:57,960 I have to keep you on your toes, man. 17 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,880 I mean, imagine the day where we're working together and 18 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,440 you're like, Chris didn't surprise me today. 19 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,800 He didn't say anything weird. I can't see that coming anytime 20 00:01:08,960 --> 00:01:09,720 soon. OK. 21 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,320 OK, see I it's really important for the dynamic of our 22 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,040 relationship. I'm not saying I don't want 23 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:15,880 that. I just, I didn't. 24 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,720 No, I yeah. Thank you. 25 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,400 You wait, people are now going to come up and be like, hey, 26 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:28,640 Pastor Matt, when's potty time? I don't think that's going to be 27 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,680 a thing and I'm not. I'm also not sure we should 28 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,280 encourage it. So there's there's going to be 29 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:35,840 those of you that are going to do it because you know that I 30 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,520 don't want to encourage it. You're going to follow Chris's 31 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:40,600 lead on this. I know. 32 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:43,080 Oh man, you know what? You can follow somebody who's 33 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:45,880 insane and sometimes it'll work out and be really funny. 34 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:48,600 Great super. It'll be great. 35 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:49,600 Looking forward to that. Yep. 36 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:55,160 Me too. Oh man, well we are rolling 37 00:01:55,160 --> 00:02:00,080 through Exodus here. We had some, some good 38 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:04,040 experiences and well, the Israelites had like what, 40 39 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:08,000 days worth of hey, things were chill and they're good. 40 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,840 Walking in God's footsteps before we got to the hey, we're, 41 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,880 we're thinking about dying of thirst and hunger and all these 42 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:18,720 things. Where was this God who, isn't he 43 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,920 just going to split red seas for us every day sort of stuff. 44 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:27,160 So we're in talking through some more of Exodus 16 today. 45 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,520 But before we get there, so we're still taking questions off 46 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:33,720 the Ask Me Anything question pile here. 47 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:36,520 What are we, what are we going to talk about before we jump 48 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,000 back into Exodus? Oh, man. 49 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,800 OK. So there was actually a couple 50 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:45,720 questions that line up pretty well together and now I kind of 51 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:47,920 lost where they are. Oh no, no, here we are. 52 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,640 So it's two questions that I think line up again. 53 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:52,800 They're they're pretty much side by side. 54 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,360 So the first one goes like this, If I forgive someone, does that 55 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,560 mean I have to allow them back into my life? 56 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:04,640 Second question, if you think you have and say that you've 57 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:07,400 forgiven somebody, but you're still hurt by their actions and 58 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:11,280 sometimes you get upset, does that mean that maybe you haven't 59 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:15,040 really forgiven them? So we've got the emotional 60 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,480 content of like, I know I'm supposed to, but I haven't. 61 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,280 But also like, did they have to come back into my life the way 62 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,600 they were before? And all that I think plays out 63 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,280 in that total forgiveness idea. Yeah. 64 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:30,400 OK. And yeah, so we're talking about 65 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:35,560 like those questions are asking about forgiveness and and 66 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:40,360 reconciliation I think are both those things which are I want to 67 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:45,240 point out separate things. You can have forgiveness without 68 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:48,480 reconciliation. I don't think you can have 69 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:50,480 reconciliation without forgiveness, probably. 70 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,440 If you do, it's going to get real messy and you're just going 71 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:55,800 to keep on running over the same. 72 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,680 Things, yeah, seems like that might be kind of temporary and 73 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,360 on some shaky footing there. So first first part of the 74 00:04:02,360 --> 00:04:07,760 question seems like I I maybe have or no. 75 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,480 The second question was seems like I haven't really forgiven 76 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:11,920 them. Yeah, because sometimes I'm 77 00:04:11,920 --> 00:04:14,680 still upset. Like I think about it and all 78 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:18,760 the feels come back and. But I said I forgave them, you 79 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:22,560 know, like, and God told me to forgive them, so I'm working on 80 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:24,640 that. But I still have ill feelings. 81 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,200 What do I do with that? So I think those and you can, 82 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:29,800 you can push back, jump in too, but I think those can be 83 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,400 separate things. I think you can forgive someone 84 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,800 and still feel or remember the hurt. 85 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,800 Like we still we still have scars from that, right? 86 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,720 That doesn't then then no more tears or crying or pain. 87 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:45,960 That's not that's not this side of heaven. 88 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,040 That's that's the other side, right. 89 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:52,720 So no, I don't. I don't think that it could be 90 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,880 that you haven't really forgiven them and kind of actually gotten 91 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:00,720 over the hurts of that. But you can earnestly forgive 92 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:05,040 them, I think, and also still feel kind of the pain of that 93 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:07,320 betrayal. Yeah. 94 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:08,880 What am I? Am I on the right? 95 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:10,560 Track No, I, I talking crazy. I know. 96 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,680 I think that's absolutely true. There's certainly moments where 97 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,840 well, because OK, let's let's start with the word OK, let's 98 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:22,080 start there. The Word says that I have to. 99 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,240 It is not. It is a command that I have to 100 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,560 forgive the way that God has forgiven me. 101 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:31,480 How has He forgiven me? Completely, totally, 100%, 102 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:35,000 nothing leftover. He sees me the way He sees His 103 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,480 own Son as righteous and perfect because of what His Son has done 104 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,640 for me. So therefore, the forgiveness 105 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:43,440 has to be total. All right. 106 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:48,920 Well, the human side of that is really complex. 107 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,480 It's really difficult. So, I mean, I hear what God 108 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:58,040 tells me, OK, So therefore I want to do it, but I can't do it 109 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:02,920 in my flesh because maybe there's still financial or 110 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,920 physical or emotional injury that I'm working through. 111 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,320 So does that mean I can't pronounce forgiveness until all 112 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:11,520 those things are set? No. 113 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,080 Here's the thing. If God calls us to forgive, 114 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:21,680 which he does, maybe my mouth is leading my emotions, not the 115 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:28,480 other way around, so I then can pronounce forgiveness and my 116 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:33,160 emotions will through. I think earnest prayer to have a 117 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,480 heart change the way that God's heart is positioned through 118 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:41,640 earnest prayer over time, God will heal me as I'm consistently 119 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:45,680 asking for him to do just that. Lord, make me more like you. 120 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:49,320 Give me a heart like you have. Help me to see people the way 121 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,880 that you see people, in particular this person that has 122 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,240 done me some harm. But pronouncing that 123 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,600 forgiveness, I don't think it, I don't think that means it's 124 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:03,200 inauthentic. No, it just means that Yep, my, 125 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:05,720 I'm going to, I'm going to need some time for my heart to catch 126 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:08,720 up with the command that God has given me and that I'm that I'm 127 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,360 working on. And even Paul puts language to 128 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:15,520 it. 2nd Corinthians 518 is all this is from God who reconciled 129 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,320 us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of 130 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,320 reconciliation. That's that's then like a 131 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,840 process, right? Then it's not something that 132 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:26,440 just happens. It's something that we do have 133 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:28,200 to work. And I think that's part of that 134 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:32,880 healing, the hurt sort of sort of process feeling, feeling 135 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:35,240 reconciled. I think you can forgive short of 136 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:36,800 that. And I also don't think every 137 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:40,960 situation can probably be completely reconciled, right? 138 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,520 In Ephesians, Paul writes as if possible, as far as it depends 139 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:46,640 on you, live at peace with everyone. 140 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:51,440 So that's, that's Our Calling as Christians is yes, to forgive as 141 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:57,560 God in Christ forgave us. The person you're forgiving 142 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:02,080 might still not be peaceable about that situation, right? 143 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,280 And then, and then at that point, you, you can't really 144 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:08,280 come to reconciliation there. There might still be hurt. 145 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:10,800 You can forgive them and there might still be hurt in that 146 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:12,360 situation because it's not healed. 147 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:15,000 It's not it's not fully reconciled. 148 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,560 Or maybe that other party doesn't even necessarily want 149 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,440 peace with you, but if possible, as far as it depends on you, 150 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,800 you're you. You've put the ball in their 151 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:28,600 court and you have given a peaceable front to, to them. 152 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:33,840 I've, I'm, I have forgiven you. I, I'm at peace in this, in, in 153 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,200 myself and in my own life. And sometimes maintaining that 154 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:39,360 peace. I think the first question was 155 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:41,880 letting about boundaries, letting that person back into 156 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:47,240 your life, right? If they're not coming at it 157 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,920 peaceably, I, I don't know, I don't think we're called to 158 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,120 endure that necessarily. Like we don't, we don't have to 159 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,880 invite that into our lives or even, or even keep ourselves in 160 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,920 that situation, right? Yeah, I, I heard this. 161 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,600 I heard this little saying once, if I can't trust you with my 162 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,800 wife in my wallet, then I can't trust you at all, you know? 163 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,840 So here's the thing. Maybe somebody has hurt me in 164 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,400 some way and I man, I've forgiven. 165 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,440 And what does forgiveness really look like? 166 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,360 Actually, there's like this nice little definition I saw here 167 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,440 real quick, and now I just. Yeah, you had a contrast of 168 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:28,080 forgiveness and reconciliation there, so. 169 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:31,360 That's super fun. But anyway, no, but like 170 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,080 forgiveness is, I'm no longer looking. 171 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,040 I'm not going to. I'm not looking to harm you. 172 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:39,360 I'm not looking to slander you. I'm not bitter against you. 173 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,320 All of those things are true in real forgiveness. 174 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:47,560 So in other words, if I forgiven you and somebody who's not you 175 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:50,040 brings up this situation because they're kind of aware of it, 176 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:53,280 guess what I'm not doing. I'm not slandering you behind 177 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:54,600 your back and saying, well, yeah. 178 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,720 And they so and so and so did all the stuff and and see, I'm 179 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,040 still harming you behind your back by talking about you in a 180 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,080 negative way. If I forgiven you, I'm letting 181 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,440 all that go. If somebody brings you up, I'm 182 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,360 like, no, that's fine, we're good, you know, and that 183 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,200 doesn't, but that doesn't mean reconciliation. 184 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:14,760 That doesn't mean that I can trust you with my emotions or I 185 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:17,240 can trust you in my daily life again. 186 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:19,360 So those are two different things. 187 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:22,320 And I think it's OK to differentiate between those 188 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:25,120 things because not everybody will be safe. 189 00:10:25,120 --> 00:10:29,760 Maybe maybe the maybe a keystone example of this would just be, 190 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,360 let's say that there is somebody who's in an in a physically 191 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:39,680 abusive relationship, right? OK, so you physically exit that 192 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:43,520 space where so that way they can no longer harm you. 193 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:48,480 And emotionally you are you. You see that they're a Sinner, 194 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,120 saved by grace just like you. And so you forgive them. 195 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,120 You do the hard emotional work of saying, you know what? 196 00:10:54,120 --> 00:10:55,600 I'm not going to hold that against them. 197 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:59,520 So you don't. But that also does not mean that 198 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:02,360 they are now safe just because you forgave them. 199 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:06,600 They're not safe because you have no idea that they won't 200 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,520 still come in and harm you. So, you know, particularly that 201 00:11:10,600 --> 00:11:14,360 that more times than not would be the case of a a man and a 202 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:19,160 woman where the man is maybe been physically abusive and so 203 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:22,600 she exits whatever she can forgive, but that doesn't 204 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:24,360 necessarily mean that they're going to live in the same house 205 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,480 or be a couple anymore. Right, and that's I think the 206 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:29,000 definition you were looking for earlier. 207 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,320 Forgiveness is a one way internal process of letting go 208 00:11:32,320 --> 00:11:35,480 of resentment and anger, while reconciliation is a two way 209 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:38,640 external process of rebuilding a broken relationship. 210 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:42,360 Thank you. Yeah, that was exactly. 211 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,320 And that and the point of that reconciliation takes work from 212 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:50,000 both parties. And notice what's missing from 213 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,440 that. Forgiveness is a one way process 214 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,120 of letting go of resentment and anger. 215 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,440 It doesn't say you're going to be pain free. 216 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:03,040 It doesn't it doesn't say that within forgiveness that the the 217 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:08,440 memories or the hurt or the the mental or literal stars that are 218 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,480 that are left there. It doesn't say that those are 219 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,240 going to go away with forgiveness. 220 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:17,000 But we are called to forgiveness in, in scriptures, in the Bible, 221 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 as sons and daughters of the king. 222 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:23,800 We are called to that in Jesus, even when it doesn't make sense, 223 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,360 even when the world would tell you, how could you possibly 224 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,640 forgive that person? How, how could you do that? 225 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,760 Because we've all wronged Jesus, right? 226 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,800 Like we, we, we ought each and every one of our sins put him on 227 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:40,000 that cross and he still pled Father, forgive them for they do 228 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:41,280 not know what they're doing right? 229 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:48,960 So yeah, I think those feelings are all like real and invalid. 230 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,240 It's a good question. I don't think that just because 231 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:57,600 you're feeling that hurt that you can't have been in a place 232 00:12:57,600 --> 00:12:59,920 of forgiveness. There's probably still hurt in a 233 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:01,760 place of forgiveness. Sometimes they're not. 234 00:13:01,760 --> 00:13:03,680 We would hope and pray that there's not that peace is 235 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:06,320 ultimately resolved upon. But I think until you get to 236 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,680 reconciliation, unlike true lasting reconciliation where 237 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:16,520 there's effort and redemption in both parties, that there could 238 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:18,480 still even be hurt. And that's it like that there's 239 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,040 trust has been violated. And that's, and that's one of 240 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:25,320 those things that you can't always come back to it being 241 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,640 exactly how it was, exactly as good as it was before that hurt 242 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:32,520 happened. Yeah, you know, Jesus and I'll 243 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:36,080 paraphrase, you know, be innocent as doves but wise as 244 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,880 serpents. So like, I want to be innocent 245 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,920 before God and before man because I have authentically let 246 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:44,200 it go. I've forgiven. 247 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:47,040 So I want to be innocent that way, but I want to be wise. 248 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,120 I'm, I don't want to let somebody into my life or my 249 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:54,280 family's life who can just run roughshod and continue to harm 250 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:58,400 us emotionally or, or otherwise. So I'm not, I don't want to let 251 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:02,360 them into that space until I know that they deserve to be in 252 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,000 that space. You know that. 253 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,720 And they've earned that trust through whatever means 254 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:12,120 necessary. And so, yeah, I, I, I absolutely 255 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:19,080 have cases in my life where I have, I or somebody else in my 256 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:22,200 family has been harmed. Now, if I saw that person who 257 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,120 did those things walking down the street and they waved at me, 258 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:27,800 I'd wave right back and I would smile. 259 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:29,360 And that wouldn't be inauthentic. 260 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,960 But would I necessarily let that person have dinner with me and 261 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:34,880 my kids? Nope. 262 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:36,880 I probably wouldn't. Not, not right now. 263 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:40,840 And so The thing is, yeah, I'm not talking bad about them. 264 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,200 I'm not wishing them. I'll, I'm not, I'm not looking 265 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,720 to harm them in any way. I want them to have a good life 266 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,800 and I want them to meet Jesus. But we're not having dinner 267 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,600 together right now. Yeah, so there, there's that. 268 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,800 And I think that's real. And that's just being authentic 269 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:57,760 about what's happening. Yeah. 270 00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:59,360 And what you're talking about is boundaries. 271 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,680 And that's actually a really, if I could recommend an extra 272 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,600 biblical book on those things. It's just, it's literally called 273 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,400 Boundaries. It's by Doctor Henry Cloud. 274 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:11,960 And that's a great, great book for situations like this 275 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,920 requiring forgiveness and reconciliation or even just 276 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,600 simply that. What are the boundaries of 277 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,760 Unpeaceful relationships in my life? 278 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,440 How do how do I go about that in a in a loving Christ like way? 279 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,560 Yeah, also a good book. Excellent. 280 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,560 Doctor Henry Cloud. He's just side note that popped 281 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:34,000 in my head. He also co-authored a group's 282 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,960 book, you know, so like we'd we have life groups and stuff here 283 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,120 and he's been pretty influential on how like the philosophy of 284 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:43,120 developing those things. So excellent author. 285 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,360 Well worth your time to read any of his material. 286 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,680 Yeah. A couple things coming up in 287 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:55,040 just life of ERC. Next Sunday, the 19th is we have 288 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:58,040 a budget meeting, which I know sounds like really business and 289 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:03,440 boring, but it is how we feel the elders and church 290 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:07,720 leadership, how we believe we are led to join God in his work 291 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:11,160 in the next year with with these earthly resources that he has to 292 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,320 ask us to be faithful stewards of. 293 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:16,440 So if you'd like to be in the know on what we're looking at 294 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,000 for fiscal year 2026 and and what that looks like, you're 295 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,160 invited to stay after the service for that. 296 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:27,160 Immediately following that we are doing an outdoor, I know 297 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:31,160 fall Midwest River baptism probably sounds frosty and it's 298 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:33,640 going to be probably the water will be chilly a little bit. 299 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:37,800 But we have I believe 10 individuals that we are 300 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:42,960 baptizing into Christ in the water of the Wapsey this Sunday 301 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:45,640 around noonish. And we'll we'll send out the 302 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:49,600 address and location of that. But yeah, we've got a spot set 303 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,040 up and it's going to be cool experience both for those being 304 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:56,320 baptized, but also if you church want to come and and witness and 305 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,960 testify to God's goodness in this moment in the in the life 306 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:03,000 lives of these individuals and families invite you to do that 307 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,520 as well. Going to be pretty cool and 308 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:10,319 October 26th vision Sunday more on we'll have we'll have the 309 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:13,680 next message in the series that we're going through in Exodus, 310 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:17,680 but also you're you're taking the message that week and I'll 311 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:21,480 also be speaking on on vision the direction that we believe 312 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:27,119 God's calling us to as as a body as as a church body made-up of 313 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,920 members made-up of people. What we're chasing, what we're 314 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:33,960 pursuing, the work that he's already laid out for us in 315 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,880 community here. So that's that's October 26th 316 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:39,760 and that's the normal worship service time. 317 00:17:39,760 --> 00:17:42,040 It's going to go a little long. We'll probably be like 90 318 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:45,720 minutes that Sunday with both of us speaking 9:30 to 11:00. 319 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,160 But we're going to have lunch. We'll have lunch and afterwards 320 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,520 in the gym and just a good time of food and fellowship 321 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,000 afterwards just gathered as God's people. 322 00:17:53,120 --> 00:17:55,880 And it can be as simple and powerful and good as that. 323 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:58,800 So invite you all to participate in that. 324 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:02,440 I love all of those things. I love baptism. 325 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,000 That's going to be so amazing to see and to be a part of. 326 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:09,960 And you know, then, Oh my gosh, it's, it's so exciting. 327 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,440 And you know, like it's a weird thing to be excited about. 328 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,800 Maybe it's weird, maybe it's not, it shouldn't be, but I, but 329 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:16,680 I love it. Like I can't wait to see what 330 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:19,280 God's going to do in the next year, the next five years with 331 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,960 ERC and, and these people and people we don't even know yet, 332 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,560 but people he's going to bring into our faith community. 333 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:30,200 And, you know, even beyond like, casting that vision, dude, I 334 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,800 love food. Simply stated, I love. 335 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:39,440 And more importantly, I love having food with other people. 336 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,440 You know, I this is a tangent now. 337 00:18:42,920 --> 00:18:45,960 You're welcome. But here's here's my tangent. 338 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:51,400 I don't know if there's anything that feels more sad to me than 339 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:56,120 just eating alone. Like, no, I mean that It's like, 340 00:18:56,200 --> 00:19:00,080 so it feels so sad to me. And so sometimes, like, for 341 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,480 example, like, you know, we're, we're, we're here at church, 342 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:05,160 we're in the office and, you know, working on stuff and I 343 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,800 bring a lunch and I'm just in my office and I just like, it's 344 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:12,680 just sad food, not because I'm sad, but because there's nobody 345 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:15,360 to eat with me and it's just sad food. 346 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:19,160 And I don't like sad food. Wow, Yeah, you just got to peek 347 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:20,800 into my. Cycle everyone just got a 348 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,360 picture of lonely lunch with. Chris lonely lunch man like it's 349 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:25,920 so sad. I I don't like it. 350 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,120 Like actually the other night I thought about going to well, I, 351 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:31,840 I was going to a movie and I was like, I can go to this movie 352 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,040 alone. Like this is out of town, 353 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:34,400 Grant's working all this kind of stuff. 354 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:38,040 And I was like, ultimately, like, I'm OK going to a movie by 355 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:39,280 myself. Are you though? 356 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:42,120 Apparently not, because I did invite somebody you. 357 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:45,240 Did. I broke down and I was like, hey 358 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:46,920 mom, can you go to a movie with me? 359 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:49,120 And she did. So it was really nice. 360 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:50,880 But like, but you know what would be? 361 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,600 But eating alone would be way more sad. 362 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,680 Like even OK, let's say I've gone to the I'm really off now. 363 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,160 Let's say I've gone to the movie by myself and I order the 364 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:04,680 popcorn and I'm sitting there just eating popcorn by myself. 365 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,280 I'm eating. Again, I'm eating again, and I'm 366 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,920 eating alone, and I'm eating alone in the dark. 367 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:12,720 Is there more? Is there something more sad than 368 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:16,000 that Eating alone in the dark that even made it worse? 369 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,800 I'm going to make myself upset. Like I don't want to do that. 370 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,440 So there you go. There's a there's a look into 371 00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:24,000 sad Chris. And what would make me so sad. 372 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:26,840 Eating alone in the dark would make me so sad. 373 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,560 Sad Chris eating alone in the dark. 374 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:35,160 All right, we we got there somehow, from church rejoicing 375 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:37,120 celebrations and gatherings and baptisms. 376 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:39,640 We got to Sad Chris eating alone in the dark. 377 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,640 I'm sorry you. I'm saved, Pastor Chris, 378 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,920 everyone I. Know all of you, just got a 379 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:48,000 weird look into my stream of consciousness, so you're 380 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,320 welcome. Oh man, here we go. 381 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:53,320 I'm usually excited to dive into the world and I've never been 382 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:57,400 more excited to leave that topic behind and and jump into some 383 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:03,160 more stuff in Exodus 16 here. So I touched on a lot yesterday. 384 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:07,280 Man, we're just God's word is is so good and so rich. 385 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:11,080 It's hard to sift through all of it a lot of the time. 386 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:16,800 But we started at the first part of Exodus 16, verse one, talking 387 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:24,400 about the the wilderness of of sign Sinai, Mount Sinai that 388 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:27,160 they were journeying through ultimately going to end up there 389 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,440 getting the getting the 10 commandments handed down from 390 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,280 God to Moses down the mountain and all of that. 391 00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:37,680 We get a couple markers, verses 1 and 2 here on the 15th day of 392 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,720 the second month after they departed from the land of Egypt. 393 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:43,560 So we have, I know in weeks, weeks past, we've talked about 394 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,720 kind of this timeline we're at, we're at about 45 days since 395 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:52,200 they have been free of this slavery, which is a long time, 396 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:56,280 but also isn't that long of a time to like forget God's 397 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,680 miraculous faithfulness in, in the things that they've seen. 398 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:03,520 Right, like 40 days versus the last 400 years, right? 399 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:05,440 Really short, relatively speaking. 400 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,560 And here we are just like moaning and complaining. 401 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,400 And you know what? They're not even eating alone. 402 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:12,720 I don't know what their problem is. 403 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,400 They're not even eating by themselves. 404 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:15,680 They got plenty of people to eat with. 405 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,280 You got plenty of people. What the heck? 406 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,840 But verse 2, the whole congregation of the people of 407 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:22,920 Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in this wilderness. 408 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:29,120 And this is this is interesting. They Moses and Aaron, what are 409 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:31,520 you going to do about this? Like they, they haven't even 410 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,480 really because we see them focus their grumbling to God. 411 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,760 And of course, of course, Moses and Aaron took it to God and 412 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,280 they're like, Hey, what are we? What are we going to do with 413 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,600 this? God's response verse 4, Behold, 414 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,200 I'm going to rain bread from heaven for you. 415 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,560 And people should go out and gather a day's portion every day 416 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,880 that I may test them whether they walk in my law or not. 417 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:58,120 I didn't deep dive into this verse, but there's Jesus all 418 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:00,440 over this verse, right? Like. 419 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,320 Bread from heaven, How does it get more Jesus? 420 00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:07,520 Even that, Yeah. Jesus coming down from heaven 421 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,320 and then and then if you take it to him being the word him him us 422 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:15,600 us walking daily rooted in the vine he was in me finds the 423 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,560 Father and and all these all these things about Jesus John 424 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:22,360 John 15 in there and but but think about that so 425 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:24,920 contextualize that if Jesus is the bread from heaven. 426 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,320 He is the bread of life. He is the word that we are to 427 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,560 take in daily. Then hear this verse. 428 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,880 The people shall go out and gather a day's portion every 429 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,520 day. It's right there we need our 430 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,400 daily portion of the word of God every day. 431 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:45,280 Why that I may test them whether they will walk in my law or not. 432 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:49,400 There's so I know, I know that sounds very lawful, but there's 433 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,080 actually like obedience, faithfulness in this verse, 434 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,400 right? Oh, absolutely. 435 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,080 We need that daily bread. Why? 436 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,760 Because it's what's best for us. God's way is best. 437 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,680 It should be first and best in our lives, informing our actions 438 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,320 and forming our our call, how we engage with the world. 439 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,000 And then that I may test them whether they will walk in my 440 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,760 lawn or not. If we're starting in the word, 441 00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:17,400 do we, I mean, I mean to to jump ahead to James again, like show 442 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,040 me a faith without works. I will show you a faith by by my 443 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,800 works, like are we walking in the daily bread that we're 444 00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:26,040 eating, that we're that we're taking in? 445 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,120 Well, think about it from the perspective, you know, fitness, 446 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:31,760 people will say this all the time. 447 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:33,680 You know, you get out what you put in. 448 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,240 So if I put in junk, then my body's not going to react the 449 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,800 way I want it to in terms of like my ability to move freely 450 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,360 throughout the world. So therefore I should put good 451 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:46,960 things into my body. Well, if we're talking about 452 00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,760 like, yeah, the, the, the body is just the methodology through 453 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,600 which we, our souls in our minds and our hearts travel through 454 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,360 the world. Well, my gosh, like I need my 455 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:02,080 heart, my, my soul, my mind to be healthy. 456 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,600 And how better can I make my heart, my soul, my mind healthy 457 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,880 every single day than reflecting on the character of God, on what 458 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,920 he's done in his word every single day? 459 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,320 That is the thing that is going to keep me healthy and moving 460 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:21,080 through the world effectively without stumbling all over the 461 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,080 place. And you know, as far as the 462 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,920 quote law goes, it's the thing that reminds me, all right, God 463 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,920 has a standard and he has a standard of how I am to speak 464 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,880 and to walk in this world, how I'm to interact with him, how 465 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:35,320 I'm to interact with my neighbor. 466 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:41,480 And to the extent that I am dwelling in his word every 467 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:45,280 single day, to that same extent, I will be a mouthpiece for him. 468 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:47,720 I'll do that way more effectively. 469 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,280 You know, it would be the same thing like if I let's hear, Oh 470 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:57,760 my gosh, if I was reading A blog everyday on how to how to be a 471 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:00,640 better cook or a chef, guess what I'm going to talk about all 472 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,360 the time. Oh, you know, this meal I just 473 00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:05,080 made and I got this weird ingredient and like it totally 474 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,560 blew up everything and it was amazing. 475 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:08,560 And it's like a flavor profile I've never had before. 476 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,480 And you're going to talk about that stuff all the time because 477 00:26:10,480 --> 00:26:11,560 it's what you're taking all the time. 478 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,720 Well, God's word is not any different. 479 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,640 In fact, it's more powerful. It's more powerful and to your 480 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,400 point, it's not it's not law. It's simply doing and and that's 481 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:23,760 in this verse to the people shall go out and gather a day's 482 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,520 portion. God could have just each of 483 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:28,640 these families could have just set out a little basket right 484 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,880 right by their camp and each morning God could have just 485 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,040 snapped his fingers like boom, it's full again right there. 486 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:37,360 He could have I mean really he could have just taken their 487 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:39,120 bellies and been like every morning. 488 00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:44,000 Boom, it's full now, like why the middle man because it's this 489 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,360 walk in obedience, whether or not they will walk in my lob 490 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:52,640 like there's still doing to do in in the Christian walk, right. 491 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:56,720 Ephesians 289 and 10 that that they would walk in the good 492 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:58,680 works that I that I've orchestrated for them, that I've 493 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:00,360 that I've planned for them for what? 494 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:04,920 To glorify God to to bring glory to God. 495 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,920 Man, you're just speaking in Bible verses. 496 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,880 This is great. Like, but, but it's, it's all 497 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:13,080 there, right? Like it's, it screams Jesus and 498 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,880 and it's all the same God, it's all the same relationship. 499 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,080 But we can see it even in the Old Testament that this is the 500 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,160 design for it. So. 501 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:25,000 And isn't it? Actually, let me pause for a 502 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,000 second here. Isn't that so cool that God 503 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:32,600 wants our participation like he wants us to be a part of his 504 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,880 goodness and his plan? I, I, I love the fact that you 505 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,480 said, yeah, he could have just magically filled their bellies 506 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,720 every day and they would be like, sweet man, I'm not hungry. 507 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,880 But no, like he, he loves us so much that he wants us to 508 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:46,280 participate. Think about it this way. 509 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:50,520 If you've got a small child of some sort and you're, I don't 510 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,640 know, I'm not a mechanic, but let's say you're doing a, a 511 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:56,040 project on your car, replacing the battery or something silly 512 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:59,960 and easy like that. I could just do it and have my 513 00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:06,080 kid being babysat by my by his iPad, or I could invite him away 514 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,720 from the iPad and say, Hey, like, I, I just want you to 515 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,760 participate with me. And that is showing love in such 516 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,080 a huge way because like, I've got this time and I want to 517 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,040 spend that time with you. I want to do this thing with 518 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,240 you. And The thing is very secondary 519 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,360 to the fact that I just want you with me. 520 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:26,640 And so I just, I love that God lets us and encourages us and 521 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,680 wants us to participate in what he's doing. 522 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,680 I think that's great. And the other part of this that 523 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,720 I think kind of the next step, we jump ahead to verse 9 and 524 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:39,320 Moses and Aaron, they kind of go that they, they talk with God 525 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,400 and God reveals the plan of how he's going to provide and, and 526 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,240 give meat in the evening and and bread in the morning for the 527 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:50,200 people. Moses said to Aaron, verse 9, 528 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,320 say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, come near 529 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:58,520 before the Lord for he has heard you grumbling, OK. 530 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,120 And as soon as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the 531 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:02,840 people of Israel, they looked toward the wilderness and 532 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:06,320 behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. 533 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,440 So not only that, who moved, right? 534 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:12,480 Like we've, we've talked about that question before. 535 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,720 You're feeling distant from God. You're, you're feeling 536 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,120 lackluster in your faith and that it's not what it was. 537 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:21,680 Who moved draw near to God and he and he will draw near to you. 538 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,920 They were they were listing right they were they were they 539 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:28,880 were setting their eyes on other things and the correction has 540 00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:32,000 come near before the Lord for he has heard your grumbling and and 541 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,080 the Lord says in verse 11, I've heard the grumbling of the 542 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,560 people of Israel. I have seen their suffering 543 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,520 right that same that same back when they were in Egypt. 544 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,880 I've seen the affliction of my people when God's talking to 545 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:46,400 Moses in the burning Bush, like I know, I know you're struggling 546 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,480 is, is, is what God says. I know what you're going 547 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:49,240 through. I get it. 548 00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:53,440 But who moved you moved I've I've, I've been right here with, 549 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,280 with provision and faithfulness the whole time. 550 00:29:55,640 --> 00:30:00,320 So draw near and the Lord has heard your grumbling. 551 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,280 So then we get into and and and and he says when you draw near, 552 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,280 when you take in my provision at twilight, you shall eat meat. 553 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,880 Verse 12 in the morning you should be filled with bread. 554 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:13,280 Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God. 555 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:17,920 When we're resting in and taking in His provision, His daily 556 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:21,040 bread, His goodness for us, that is the best thing for us. 557 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,080 Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God. 558 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,160 God's patience is kind of off the charts here, and here's what 559 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:32,480 I mean by that. As if they didn't know that God 560 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,880 was the Lord of heavens and the earth when he parted the Red 561 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,000 Sea. As if they didn't know, which 562 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:39,880 was only like 40 something days ago. 563 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,760 Like, really? Did you forget so quickly? 564 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,640 Now, this is, of course, going to become a thematic part of, 565 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,280 well, all of the Exodus story. And I don't mean Exodus just 566 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,040 like the book. I mean like the Pentateuch, the 567 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,560 first five books of the Bible. And far beyond. 568 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,360 People are going to see his glory. 569 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:00,360 They're going to see a miracle. They're going to be provided 570 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,600 for. God's going to just knock their 571 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:06,160 socks off with blessings. And then a short time later, 572 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:08,720 they're going to be like, yeah, but but what have you done for 573 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,240 me lately? And I just, it's, it's so sad to 574 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,880 see, but I actually don't, I don't demonize them for that 575 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:20,520 because am I not the same? Do I not, you know, say, oh, 576 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,440 Lord, all these things are going wrong. 577 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:23,800 I need you to fix everything in my life. 578 00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,240 Come on, Like, get to it. And then of course, in his own 579 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,640 way, in his own time, he does see me through all of those 580 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,880 things. And then I'm like, oh sweet, 581 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,240 good job Jesus. And then like next week, here I 582 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:39,800 am again, acting like he didn't just fix everything for me all 583 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,360 the time. Like good gravy, what is my 584 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,680 problem? Yeah, but I love how God like 585 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:48,880 God's almost showing off in this passage too a little bit I can't 586 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,640 think of because this this thought kind of just came to my 587 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:52,920 mind. I can't think of a good like 588 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:58,520 real life metaphor for it. But if if you were to if you 589 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,600 were to tell someone or like someone just and someone knew 590 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,800 that you were awesome at something and like you and like 591 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:06,480 and like they knew you're OK darts. 592 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:10,320 Sorry. Oh no, You just put, you just 593 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,920 put a bull's eye on me. Now everybody's, everybody at 594 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,360 men's night is just going to want to. 595 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,520 See a bull's eye on you at at men's night. 596 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,400 That's fine. But if so, let's see if I can 597 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,840 put this together so someone knows that you're good at darts. 598 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,240 The Israelites know that God has provided he's made a way for 599 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:27,960 them through the sea. They're just kind of they're 600 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:32,120 just kind of forgotten about it. And so no, this will work 601 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:39,840 teammate three O 1 working or or or even cricket that we put I I 602 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,640 don't know dart terms. What game do we usually? 603 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:42,720 Play. We usually play cricket. 604 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,000 We usually play cricket down filling in the the teens and 605 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,880 bull's eyes and and racking points. 606 00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:54,400 So cricket usually say that say that you're like because you're 607 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,480 playing teams. Usually you got you got 2 and 608 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,080 you're paired up with somebody and, and you're just kind of 609 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,240 you're rolling along, you're doing your job, You're not 610 00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:04,240 really carrying the team. And then all of a sudden like 611 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:09,760 it's, it's crunch time and you get to pull out like, OK, Nope. 612 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,520 You know what? We need 3 bullseyes. 613 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:13,520 I got you. This is this is done. 614 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,120 Bam, bam, bam. I'm still awesome at darts 615 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,000 because I'm pastor Chris and I'm awesome at darts. 616 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:23,760 Like I love how God kind of flexes in this moment. 617 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:27,720 Like, Yep, you guys have forgot. And you know what? 618 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:29,680 I'm not going to be prone to anger. 619 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,440 Actually, I'm going to show you my glory in this cloud. 620 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,800 I'm going to be prone to to mercy. 621 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,880 And also I'm still going to rock your socks off with all this 622 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:43,720 quail, all this mana like because I can, because I'm God 623 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,040 like. It's just like total flex of 624 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,160 like, Oh, you forgot. I am. 625 00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,920 I am happy to show you again how awesome that I am, right? 626 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,000 No, and actually, sometimes he reminds us like, OK, so Fast 627 00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:02,840 forward to the end of the book of Job after just all this time 628 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,160 of complaining and kind of, you know, and and his friends just 629 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,480 accusing him of being an awful, terrible person who somehow 630 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,840 deserved all the bad things that happened to him. 631 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,320 Is got bad friends don't have friends like that anyway. 632 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,400 But God comes and he flexes in a different way. 633 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,360 Where were you? Where were you? 634 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:23,840 Oh, man, And he just starts to list like the formation of the 635 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,960 earth and how he controls and stops the seas right where 636 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:31,280 they're supposed to to. And yeah, yeah, God has every 637 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,639 right to flex on us, however often he feels the need to. 638 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:39,040 And sometimes he does that through like right here grace, 639 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:40,880 like food and meat and all that kind of stuff. 640 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,480 And other times he does it through like, I need to put you 641 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,320 back in your place. I need to remind you that your 642 00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:50,960 life is like a a breath. You know, the flowers, they eat 643 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,000 all those things. And so anyway, I just, it's, 644 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,719 it's so cool to watch him work in these ways. 645 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:59,480 And this is just such a great example of it. 646 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,040 Yeah. So he does. 647 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,680 He does this and I talked about the provision a little bit 648 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:05,880 yesterday. I'm interested to hear your 649 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:10,600 thoughts on this because the quail, I mean that was, that was 650 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,480 just, that was a bird that was in there. 651 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:15,040 I love how you said that yesterday. 652 00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:16,520 You're like, they're just birds man. 653 00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:18,280 They're just regular birds. Well, but they weren't. 654 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,760 Again, it was. They're not magic birds, they're 655 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,240 regular birds. They were in magic. 656 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,280 It's not like all of a sudden there was this mysterious 657 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,240 creature that they'd never seen before that they didn't know 658 00:35:25,240 --> 00:35:27,840 what to do with. No, God just kind of flocked 659 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:31,600 quail to their general vicinity. And they like it could have even 660 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,080 been a migratory pattern that they were like, because that's 661 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:38,080 the birds that they are. But God orchestrated those 662 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,000 things for his divine purposes and to provide for his people. 663 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,280 Right. So that's where I kind of went. 664 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,360 And I'd, I'd love to hear your reaction more so in trying to 665 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:51,560 talk about the practicality of the manna. 666 00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,720 So yes. And and don't don't hear what 667 00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:59,360 I'm not saying. Could God just rain little chips 668 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:01,720 of bread from heaven and have them cover the ground? 669 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,800 Absolutely, yes. Could it be a lot more practical 670 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,360 and something that actually occurs in nature that was just 671 00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:12,720 covering the ground. Also yes, I think yeah. 672 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:17,160 So I don't want to like again, this is we're going to major in 673 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,400 the majors. This is not a issue of salvation 674 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:24,680 or significance to me. It's pretty powerful or what 675 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,720 spoke to me out of this was God working in like the seemingly 676 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:31,760 mundane, this, this, this substance, which again, is 677 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,800 still, it's still eaten by those in this region and they still 678 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,760 call it mana to to this day. Like that they eat this flaky 679 00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:45,160 SAP resin stuff that that insects get out of trees 680 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:49,680 basically. So, yeah, could, could he have 681 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,960 worked in that way in this substance that naturally occurs 682 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,040 in the region and then covered the ground with it? 683 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,680 And also makes a lot of sense that the I mean, the passage 684 00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,520 tells us that the sun melted it away. 685 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,000 So guess, guess what SAP does when it gets warm, right? 686 00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:10,600 It liquefies and and and melts like so yeah, I, I don't know if 687 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:12,760 that was crazy or after the reservation, but the 688 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:16,080 practicality of God using everyday month things, things 689 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,840 that we may not notice for his divine purposes, that spoke very 690 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,040 powerful to me. I don't. 691 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,280 I don't. I don't know if it did for you 692 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,080 or others. But no, absolutely, I think I 693 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:28,240 think you're, you're spot on and you're 100%, you know, pointed, 694 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,600 you know, you're, you're pointed true north, you've got it 695 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,640 figured out. And so think about this. 696 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,120 We just crossed the Red Sea. And if you have one of those 697 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,880 little study guides, you'll notice that there is a reference 698 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:43,760 in that study guide to the fact that scientists have put 699 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:49,880 together a a mechanic where basically they know exactly how 700 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:53,120 fast and how strong the wind would have to be because that's 701 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,400 what it says. God used the wind to part the 702 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:57,640 sea, right? OK. 703 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:02,760 So, yeah, so scientists have figured out the to the to the 704 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,200 exact extent this is how hard the wind would have to be 705 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,600 moving. And yes, in fact, if the wind 706 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,400 were moving that hard in that direction, the sea would 707 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,720 absolutely part. So think about this. 708 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,360 God, the creator of the entire universe, of everything we see, 709 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,560 feel touched here, whatever. He's the creator and owner and 710 00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,200 sustainer of all of those things. 711 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:28,080 Why wouldn't he use what he created to do what he wants to 712 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:29,680 do? So in the case of the Red Sea, 713 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,520 the wind, in the case of the mana, OK, he's got this thing 714 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:38,640 that he already created for nature to naturally do, but he's 715 00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,760 going to take that just like the wind at the Red Sea, and he's 716 00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,760 going to specifically work that for a specific end. 717 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:49,000 So think about this, we've got probably 2,000,000 plus people 718 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,360 now. Do we actually think that the 719 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:57,880 normal amount of mana that hits the ground is enough to feed? 720 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,440 Exactly. And do we actually think that 721 00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:03,920 that's happening year round all the time? 722 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,120 No, it's not. But God took what he already 723 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:11,240 created to naturally occur and he expands it to an infinite 724 00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:15,680 level so that it's great enough to sustain his people. 725 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,120 So yeah, there's it is a natural process that he created. 726 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,120 Acknowledge that first. But it's a process that he also 727 00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:26,000 blew up way bigger than nature has any right to say it is. 728 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:30,000 So he did all of those things. And and I think, I think you 729 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:32,120 made a good point there and it makes a lot of sense. 730 00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,800 Cool, Yeah 'cause he he magnifies and multiplies what's 731 00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:39,400 what's already there, Could he? You just said what I said in 732 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,520 like 2 seconds. That was way better you got 733 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:42,800 there. I could have just said he 734 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:46,000 magnifies and multiplies and then I could have been done and 735 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,160 we I I could have stopped talking 2 minutes ago. 736 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,960 Hey, we got to fill podcast time, man. 737 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:51,760 It's good. I need you to be a little rambly 738 00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,080 sometimes. About sad eating. 739 00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:57,760 No see how I keep dragging. Us back. 740 00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:01,440 Never that OK. Yeah, so and I, I did talk about 741 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,280 yesterday too, because I think it's where it where it applies 742 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,680 And I again. Could God work in miraculous 743 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:12,320 ways with things that are outside our normal experience 744 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,040 with things we've never seen before? 745 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,640 Yes, absolutely. I think he could. 746 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,360 But he can also work in the things that are around us 747 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:21,280 everyday that we just don't notice or take the time to 748 00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,440 acknowledge. And I think, and I think that 749 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:27,880 could be the situation here because we have the testimony of 750 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:33,160 the Gospels, Jesus feeding the 4000 and the 5000 where he took 751 00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:35,960 bread and fish. This was not magical bread and 752 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:39,840 flying fish like this. This was regular, normal, 753 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,520 everyday things that everyone in that crowd consumed every day. 754 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:47,400 But add a little Jesus, little sprinkle of Jesus and it 755 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,480 magnifies and multiplies the thing, right? 756 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:54,640 So I, I see the parallels of God working in the same way in this 757 00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,560 passage here. And it doesn't sound crazy 758 00:40:56,560 --> 00:40:59,960 because we see God working that way in other parts of the Bible 759 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:05,200 too. So there's that we kind of 760 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:10,600 jumped over, there's, there's Sabbath instruction weaved in 761 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,240 and out of this passage everywhere. 762 00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:15,200 Just we're, we're all the way up in verses 14 and 15 already. 763 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,480 But back to verse 5 is where it really starts. 764 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,680 God instructs on the 6th day when they prepare what they 765 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:24,360 bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily in 766 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:29,120 anticipation of not gathering on the 7th day, right? 767 00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,280 So there's more instruction. Verses 16 and 17. 768 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,600 Gather of it, each of you as much as he can eat. 769 00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,760 The people of Israel did so when they measured it with an Omer. 770 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,640 Whoever gathered much had nothing leftover. 771 00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,760 Whoever gathered, gathered little, had no lack. 772 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,560 Each of them gathered as much as he could eat. 773 00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,280 Moses warned them let no one leave any of it over till the 774 00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,920 morning. But they did not listen to 775 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,160 Moses. Remember that? 776 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,440 Remember the earlier part where there's hey, there's things to 777 00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,840 do to see whether or not you will you will gather your daily 778 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,280 bread and it will be a test to see whether or not you walk in 779 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,120 my law right home, man. They're already not listen. 780 00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:14,600 It's like first step, step one. Don't hold any of it over verse 781 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:15,720 20. But they did not listen to 782 00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:17,480 Moses. Some left part of it till the 783 00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:21,040 morning, and it bred worms and stank gross. 784 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:22,920 And Moses was very angry with them. 785 00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:24,720 I did. I did point this out that we 786 00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:26,960 don't really see the wrath of God in this passage. 787 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,880 There's not. But there was wrath from Moses. 788 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,080 No, we got smelly camp. Why are we in smelly camp? 789 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:33,880 Nobody wants to go to smelly camp. 790 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:35,480 They wanted to go back with the meat pots. 791 00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:38,480 Man, those had the smell if. You could have. 792 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:44,800 Sent meat pots one more time. It's a funny word. 793 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,400 It's insane. No, it's not insane. 794 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,520 It's not. It's just, it's so there's 795 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,960 something about the word meat pots that's really kind of 796 00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:58,600 disturbing. It is. 797 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,560 It's. Honestly it sounds like people 798 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:02,640 dying. Like why would you want to go 799 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,280 back to the meat pots? That sounds like a terrible life 800 00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:08,280 they did. It would be better that we would 801 00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,640 go around the meat pots and and have bread to the like. 802 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,360 Oh, man, anyway, so one of the things here that I was that I 803 00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,800 was kind of thinking of, you know, like, OK, so we live in a 804 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,480 Sam's and a Costco world, you know what I mean? 805 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:22,520 So like. Stockpile. 806 00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,080 Stuff. Oh, dude, we gosh, OK, go back 807 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:29,120 to 2020 and all of a sudden there's no toilet paper on the 808 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,960 shelves because people gather far more than what they need. 809 00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:38,600 Weird and strange and terrible. And so we live in a Costco Sam's 810 00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:40,720 world where we feel like, oh, we've got to gather. 811 00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:42,440 We've got to gather, we've got to hoard, we've got to do all 812 00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,280 this stuff. And God is like, don't you trust 813 00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,320 me? Why do you feel like you need to 814 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:51,320 hoard things? The same God who, who parted the 815 00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:53,160 Red Sea. I'm going to be there for you 816 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:57,160 every single day. Like I, I know what you need. 817 00:43:57,720 --> 00:44:00,080 There's no surprises here. I'm the one who created your 818 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,120 body, therefore I know what it needs. 819 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,200 Why are you surprised by that? Why? 820 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:07,080 Why do you feel like you need to hoard these things? 821 00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:09,280 You want to know why people feel the need to hoard things? 822 00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,520 Because they have no trust. They have no trust. 823 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,560 Is God really going to show up for me today? 824 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:20,640 Like, yeah, of course he is. But do you, do you trust that or 825 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,720 do you want smelly camp? I would rather have. 826 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,720 I would rather trust God than smelly camp. 827 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:29,680 Now one of them is a little bit more difficult emotionally. 828 00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:34,880 It can be difficult emotionally to trust God when it feels like 829 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,440 where am I? Where is my help coming from? 830 00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,880 Right? So, but man, my help comes from 831 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:45,080 the Lord and the maker of heaven and earth, the the only one who 832 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:49,840 can do anything meaningful. And so let's not be, especially 833 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:53,560 in our faith, let's not be a Sam's Club culture in our faith, 834 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:57,520 Let's rely on God every single day, day in and day out to 835 00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,240 provide for us. And we don't need to hoard or 836 00:45:00,240 --> 00:45:03,160 build up these safety Nets because He's already got us. 837 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,640 That's so good. And I think that that might 838 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,400 sound, it does sound countercultural because you're 839 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,760 right, we're in a Sam's Club, Costco culture where, where we 840 00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:16,240 accumulate and stockpile things and we can maybe bring that 841 00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:19,800 practically to our faith. Oh, well, I, I read 2 chapters 842 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,160 yesterday, so I'm good for today. 843 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:26,600 Like, yeah, maybe. But also like you read 2 844 00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,920 chapters yesterday so that you could be back in the word today. 845 00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:34,000 Like we're, we're not, we're not stockpiling that daily bread for 846 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:36,080 a day that we don't need it. We need it every day. 847 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,360 And God, God designed it that way. 848 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:45,120 Coming ahead to some some more Sabbath things. 849 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:49,080 Verse 22, on the 6th day, they gathered twice as much bread, 2 850 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,520 omers each side note and omers about two liters. 851 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,320 So picture a 2 liters of soda like that. 852 00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:59,160 That thing is full of little mana flakes, little little mana 853 00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:01,920 wafers. When all the leaders of the 854 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,000 congregation came and told Moses, he said to them, this is 855 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,960 what the Lord has commanded. Tomorrow, listen to this 856 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:09,080 language. Listen, listen to the 857 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:13,000 weightiness of this language. Tomorrow is a day of solemn 858 00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:16,440 rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord. 859 00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:21,480 Wow, do we treat that day that way. 860 00:46:21,720 --> 00:46:26,000 Man, that I feel a lot of conviction in that like we we we 861 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,600 don't. And what's even worse is we have 862 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:30,840 the attitude and you brought this out in the in the study 863 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,600 guide, the our deliver study guide that you worked up for 864 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,520 this series. We very much have the attitude 865 00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,920 of, Oh no, if I could just, if I could just get these things done 866 00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,000 for the next, for the next 10 days or so, then I would have 867 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,800 time to rest. There's always going to be more. 868 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:50,400 Look at the way God designed this though. 869 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,800 He says 6 days, you shall gather verse 26. 870 00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,200 But on the 7th day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none. 871 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,480 So on the 7th day, some of the people went out together, but 872 00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:05,120 they found none. There's not even work to do on 873 00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,000 the Sabbath. God gave them this thing and 874 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:11,000 gave them instruction to go walk and gather each day. 875 00:47:11,240 --> 00:47:15,680 On the 7th day, there's not even work to done to be done, work to 876 00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:18,240 done. There's not even work to be done 877 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:23,320 to be tempted to do. There's nothing to do on the 878 00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:26,200 Sabbath but rest in God's provision. 879 00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:30,640 That already happened the day before, man. 880 00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:35,560 So obviously here it's very specific, you know, don't even 881 00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:39,280 exit your home basically like just just hang out with a fan, 882 00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:42,680 just rest, just just be happy with the way that God is 883 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,800 provided. And like maybe in, you know, 884 00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,520 maybe in lieu of working, I'm working on catching up with my 885 00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,080 kids, I'm working on catching up with my wife because I feel like 886 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:54,360 we've just been roommates for six days, you know, running back 887 00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,560 and forth. You know, somebody, somebody 888 00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:02,320 said recently, as we're just talking, I feel like I'm just 889 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:07,000 running parallel to them. And that struck me a lot. 890 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:09,520 Like I'm just running parallel to my wife and my kids. 891 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:13,800 And that's, but that's so real for so many of us. 892 00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,640 And, you know, a Sabbath is a chance to take those lines and 893 00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:21,520 allow them to intersect once again in a really meaningful 894 00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,080 and, and special way. And God does that on purpose. 895 00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:28,240 Like he, he knows that we, we, you know, through the, through 896 00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:30,680 the jobs and careers and those kind of things that we have, 897 00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:34,440 like that's how like God is allowing us to provide for our 898 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,600 families. Great, great. 899 00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,520 But like, can we just, can we just pause for a moment? 900 00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:44,720 So, you know, they're obviously taking this like very seriously 901 00:48:44,720 --> 00:48:46,560 and they should like we're not leaving our house. 902 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:51,360 Does that mean practically in the 21st century that on your 903 00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,120 day of rest, when you're not going to work, you're not 904 00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:57,720 allowed to leave your house? Well, I would say no, that's not 905 00:48:57,720 --> 00:49:00,360 exactly what that means. It just means like, let's be 906 00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:03,120 really intentional about when we are leaving our home. 907 00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:06,240 We're doing that together. We're doing that with a spirit 908 00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:11,080 of joy and rest and just a desire to interact with each 909 00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,280 other in a meaningful way that we have not been able to as 910 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:15,800 we're running parallel to each other. 911 00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:19,640 So I think, yeah. And maybe, man, that's going to 912 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:23,280 look different for everybody. Like, you know, what's something 913 00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,880 for me, for example, like if I want to spend some time with my 914 00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:29,960 son on my day of rest, maybe we end up going to the gym 915 00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,640 together, which that sounds like work. 916 00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:34,600 And some of you are like, why would you ever do that? 917 00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:37,960 No, But like, that's my time. I get to, like, spend with him 918 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,160 one-on-one, and we just get to talk. 919 00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,560 And so whether we're walking on the treadmill or grabbing some 920 00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:46,240 free weights, like, yeah, I'm resting in the presence of my 921 00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:49,320 son as he gets to tell me about his life and vice versa. 922 00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:51,760 And that's so cool. Yeah, and working at working on 923 00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:56,280 body as a temple stuff in, in, in ways that's that's honoring 924 00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,600 God and and the things that he's laid out. 925 00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,840 And it also doesn't, it doesn't have to be Sunday. 926 00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,760 I think. I think Sunday makes sense 927 00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:08,280 because we do we gather as God's people on Sundays. 928 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:12,640 So it's, it's already naturally set out like we're here, 929 00:50:12,720 --> 00:50:15,920 obviously, because that's what we do for a vocational living. 930 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:21,440 But like even start even starting here in God's presence 931 00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:25,000 with God's people on Sundays, OK, that can inform the rest of 932 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,720 your day, even if you're on to other things after that, even if 933 00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:31,760 you're off to a swim meet or a sports event or a family 934 00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,000 gathering, whatever. All right, even if you missed 935 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:39,200 church that morning, OK, in in the car, What's what's that time 936 00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,360 like? Listen, listen to the Bible 937 00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:45,160 together in the car. Talk about things of faith with 938 00:50:45,160 --> 00:50:49,400 your kids. Go go through the basic tenets 939 00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,040 of of, of things the the Apostles Creed or the OR the 940 00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:56,040 Lord's Prayer or things like you can still inform your time 941 00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:59,920 together while going to like, I'm not saying there's anything 942 00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:02,280 wrong with with sporting events and I know they take up a ton of 943 00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:06,040 time and that's good. You can, you can delight in your 944 00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:09,120 kids and and doing those things and having that be a part of 945 00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,920 your family makeup. But can you Sabbath thing is, is 946 00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:16,400 taking time and making that time intentional for God, right? 947 00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:20,440 Taking those things that are life giving. 948 00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:22,960 I think that's more of it. If they're life giving and God 949 00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:27,840 honoring those, those are Sabbath things, life giving. 950 00:51:27,840 --> 00:51:30,680 I think we can fill in the blanks with a lot of things. 951 00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:32,920 Are the life giving things always God honoring things? 952 00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:35,280 I think that takes a little more effort, a little more 953 00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:39,880 intentionality to loop God into, OK, what are our what are our 954 00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,760 purposes in this? How do we honor God in these 955 00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:46,200 gifts given in these talents given even in these resources 956 00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:48,880 maybe that we're spending on this event or this thing that 957 00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:52,240 we're going to or the time with these people that we're 958 00:51:52,240 --> 00:51:54,360 spending. How are we God honoring in this? 959 00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:58,280 What is what is that keeping God is the focus of Sabbath. 960 00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:03,040 I think it is more important than the nitty gritty of like 961 00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:06,600 the each and every facet and detailing activity that you're 962 00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,840 doing, finding God in it. That is Sabbath thing. 963 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,720 Oh my gosh, well said. You know, and The thing is like 964 00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:18,560 on on a Sabbath, you know, one of the things that we absolutely 965 00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:22,880 have to do in order to make that rest meaningful is to is to 966 00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,040 include God in it. So thank you for saying that in 967 00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:29,440 the not so distant future, just as a preview, and maybe you want 968 00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:33,880 to look at it ahead of time to actually start to get this, you 969 00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:38,440 know, tattooed on your heart. But go read Deuteronomy 6 when 970 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:40,400 you're walking, by the way. And when you're doing this, when 971 00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:43,320 you're doing this, like Deuteronomy 6 very much gives us 972 00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:47,120 this time sense that every single moment is precious. 973 00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,520 So like you brought it up, like when we're in the car together 974 00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:55,640 going from A to B, what is what, what am I, what am I promoting 975 00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,200 during that time? You know, are the kids on the 976 00:52:58,200 --> 00:52:59,800 iPads? Are they watching a movie? 977 00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,760 Or like, could we be more intentional about just like even 978 00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:06,960 passively, you know, what I know like your favorite artist is so 979 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,600 and so, but like we're, we're going to listen to the worship 980 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:11,960 music together. And whether you sing or you 981 00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,960 don't sing, like we're going to be a, we're going to be inside 982 00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:18,120 this small space together listening to worship music that 983 00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:21,200 honors God. And so that's a way that as 984 00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,800 you're traveling, as you're going as whatever, like that's a 985 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,080 way to to honor God. And so like inside your Sabbath, 986 00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:30,640 whatever day of the week that is, or maybe it's two half days, 987 00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,720 however that breaks up for you, make sure that God's a part of 988 00:53:33,720 --> 00:53:35,360 it. And that can be listening to a 989 00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:37,640 sermon, it can be listening to worship music, it can be reading 990 00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,400 his word, it can be prayer, and it can be all of those things, 991 00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,400 right? But like invite God into your 992 00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:45,320 rest. And then when you're coming out 993 00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,240 of that rest and you're and you're refocusing your energy 994 00:53:48,240 --> 00:53:52,240 into what it is career or whatever that looks like, man. 995 00:53:52,240 --> 00:53:57,360 Now I'm coming into that refreshed and filled because 996 00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:58,560 what do we do when we're working? 997 00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,080 We're probably emptying our cup. Like think of that. 998 00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,160 Think of that image like you can have a glass of water in your 999 00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,680 hand and as you're working, man, I'm pouring out, pouring out, 1000 00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:09,160 pouring out all this energy, all this effort, man. 1001 00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:13,440 But if if I'm Sabbath, well, God is the one filling that cup back 1002 00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:15,720 up. Netflix doesn't fill my cup back 1003 00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:18,160 up. That just distracts me from what 1004 00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:19,480 I have to do for the rest of the week. 1005 00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:23,400 But but God is literally filling my cup back up with joy and 1006 00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:26,560 praise. So if God isn't in your Sabbath, 1007 00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:28,440 your cups not really getting filled. 1008 00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:30,760 Right. And that's going to make work 1009 00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:33,560 that much harder. Yeah, fetching out or or doom 1010 00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:35,440 scrolling or the other things like that's one. 1011 00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,880 Of my favorite phrases. Actually, that's that's probably 1012 00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:44,720 not filling you back up or or giving you rest for work. 1013 00:54:44,720 --> 00:54:47,960 Is is the is the phrase that I landed on yesterday? 1014 00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:49,760 It's not. It's not my phrase been stated. 1015 00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,040 Before it's brilliant. I mean, it's very, it's, it's 1016 00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:55,440 spot on. Rest for work, not not from 1017 00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:57,160 work. If we keep filling ourselves 1018 00:54:57,160 --> 00:55:00,840 with things that don't ultimately replenish or satisfy, 1019 00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,320 then we are going to get to the point of of burnout and feel 1020 00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,720 like we we need to rest from this thing rather than rest in 1021 00:55:06,720 --> 00:55:10,520 preparation for what it is that we're that we're called to. 1022 00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:14,720 And I, and I say that in a very general sense, whatever your day 1023 00:55:14,720 --> 00:55:19,720 today is managing a household and an actual job, raising kids, 1024 00:55:19,720 --> 00:55:24,360 teaching kids, being out and about in the, in the, in the 1025 00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:27,160 life of neighbors, visiting people in the, in the nursing 1026 00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:28,880 home. What, whatever it might be, 1027 00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:33,040 whatever your daily calling, your stage of life is right now 1028 00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,920 got to be rooted in that Sabbath rest on, on the foundation that 1029 00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:39,680 God gives you. Got to be rooted in joy and 1030 00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:41,680 peace in order to bring joy and peace to others. 1031 00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:42,840 Yep. You can't. 1032 00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,240 You can't put out what you don't have going in. 1033 00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:50,000 Yeah. So then there's this interesting 1034 00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:53,320 sort of historical setting, verse 32. 1035 00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:55,040 Moses said, this is what the Lord has commanded. 1036 00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:59,080 Let an Omer of it, the manna, be kept throughout your 1037 00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,480 generations, so that they may see the bread with which I fed 1038 00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,280 you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of 1039 00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:08,680 Egypt. Jumping ahead to verse 35, the 1040 00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,480 people of Israel ate the mana 40 years till they came to the 1041 00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,160 habitable land. They ate the mana till they came 1042 00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,040 to the border of the land of Canaan. 1043 00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:22,200 God instructed them to keep this as a reminder and there's 1044 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,480 different this this Omer of mana may have been kept in the ark of 1045 00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:28,600 the covenant. Was it it was supposed to be 1046 00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:31,920 kept in the in the presence of the the holy of holies in the 1047 00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:33,840 temple. And there's some thought that it 1048 00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:37,520 was this Omer was destroyed or lost around the time of of 1049 00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:40,480 Solomon, the destruction of the temple then and, and, and all 1050 00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:43,680 that, but it's a testament to God's faithfulness. 1051 00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:47,760 And you know what the promise of faithfulness is here we see it 1052 00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:50,840 lived out in the Israelites. They ate man of 40 years till 1053 00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:54,480 they came to the promised land. What does that mean for us 1054 00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:58,360 today? All you Christian followers of 1055 00:56:58,360 --> 00:57:01,680 God, Christ followers, Christians listening. 1056 00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:04,760 We're in those forty years, right? 1057 00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,640 Where? Where we live already, Not yet. 1058 00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:13,000 Heaven is our home. We're in those forty years 1059 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:17,800 approaching the promised land and they ate manna for 40 years. 1060 00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:22,760 So God, God has provided for our time leading up to the Promised 1061 00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:24,880 Land already. That's what we're living in now, 1062 00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,320 right? He's already promised us this 1063 00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:30,120 faithfulness. We see it in the provision for 1064 00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:33,280 the Israelites, leading to the point that they arrive in the 1065 00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:35,040 Promised Land. And what is this daily manner 1066 00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:36,920 for us now? It's his word. 1067 00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,480 Well, and consider the fact that yesterday's service, as we do 1068 00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:46,360 second Sunday of the month typically, we had an opportunity 1069 00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:48,880 to receive the body and blood of Jesus through communion. 1070 00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:54,080 Well, here's what Jesus says about himself in John 648 1071 00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:56,080 through 51. I am the bread of life. 1072 00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:59,600 Your Father's ate the man in the wilderness, and they died. 1073 00:57:59,960 --> 00:58:03,080 This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that one may 1074 00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,920 eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came 1075 00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:08,080 down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he 1076 00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:10,840 will live forever. And the bread that I will give 1077 00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:13,520 for the life of the world is my flesh. 1078 00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:19,800 So yeah, as we have an opportunity to receive his body 1079 00:58:19,800 --> 00:58:24,680 and blood, the promise is life forever in a life that is 1080 00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,360 without pain and sickness and sorrow and all these kinds of 1081 00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:30,800 things that make this side of heaven really difficult. 1082 00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:35,360 But Jesus has promised a better way, and he is the better way. 1083 00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,920 He is the bread that came down from heaven. 1084 00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,320 He is the manna. That doesn't spoil. 1085 00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:44,840 It does not rot, it doesn't smell like as we get to receive 1086 00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:49,480 him all of a sudden, like we are filled, we are full, we are. 1087 00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:53,920 We are given everything we need day in and day out through him. 1088 00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,280 Only one way. Yeah, and it's it's full circle. 1089 00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:03,080 That bread from heaven, Jesus coming down, casting heaven 1090 00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:08,720 aside and being that bread, that life, that daily bread that we 1091 00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:13,000 have here every day. That, but that's the design, 1092 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,080 right? It's it's a daily thing on the 1093 00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:17,440 Sabbath. Now this, this is where the 1094 00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:21,560 metaphor breaks down a little bit in gathering the daily bread 1095 00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:23,440 and gathering the word. Does the, does the Sabbath mean 1096 00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:27,800 we take a day off from that? No, it it means we're resting 1097 00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:32,640 only and ever in the provision of God in his daily bread that 1098 00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:36,360 that's already happened. This came up at my life group 1099 00:59:36,360 --> 00:59:40,080 yesterday just considering the pattern of Sabbath and and those 1100 00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:43,280 things I'm really bad at. I said it yesterday on the 1101 00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:44,920 service that I'm really bad at resting. 1102 00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:48,080 I'm actually I'm, I don't have a regular rhythm of Sabbath and 1103 00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:51,320 it's something that I'm convicted more and more about. 1104 00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:58,120 But Romans 12/2 screamed through to me in in one of your 1105 00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:01,680 reflection questions of you know what Sabbath Sabbath is 1106 01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:05,120 orchestrated. By God in a way, it doesn't make 1107 01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:07,200 sense to the world. It wouldn't make sense to the 1108 01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:10,520 world that we would lose an entire day of of work of 1109 01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:13,760 productivity, of result of things. 1110 01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:16,600 But Romans 12/2 is do not conform any longer to the 1111 01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:18,680 pattern of this world. So you know, you know what we 1112 01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:24,520 need every 7th day we need that reset to not conform to the 1113 01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:28,960 pattern of this world God built in and every 7th day reset 1114 01:00:28,960 --> 01:00:31,720 button of this earth is not your home. 1115 01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:35,840 This isn't what it's about. Dwell in me, dwell in the things 1116 01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:40,760 of me abide in me. Every 7th day reset this and and 1117 01:00:40,760 --> 01:00:45,080 live between the Sundays in me. Oh fantastic. 1118 01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:49,760 And and don't forget, as Jesus corrects bad quote Sabbath 1119 01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:53,920 behavior in Mark 227, he says that Sabbath was made for man, 1120 01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:58,160 not mad, not man for Sabbath. Meaning that like it's a gift, 1121 01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:01,880 it's a gift. It's not a law, it's a gift to 1122 01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:04,880 stop and slow down. That is a gift. 1123 01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:08,760 And if you can't see that as a gift, you might be worshipping 1124 01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,560 something other than God. You know, you're worshiping 1125 01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:13,360 productivity. You're worshiping results. 1126 01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:16,920 You're worshiping dude. Take the gift. 1127 01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:21,600 Receive the gift of rest knowing that he has done it all and he 1128 01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:24,040 will continue to do it all because he's the only one who 1129 01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:27,480 can do it all. Yeah, the song we closed with 1130 01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,000 yesterday. Seek first the Kingdom and its 1131 01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:30,680 treasures, and everything else will be added. 1132 01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:33,680 All that I'm needing, I know the Lord will provide you. 1133 01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,320 You might not. You might not see a way that 1134 01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,120 might not make sense in your life. 1135 01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,120 Well, I got to get this done. Who's going to get this done if 1136 01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:42,240 I don't get it done? Does it have to get done? 1137 01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,120 Does that thing have to get? Is it more important for you to 1138 01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:49,320 rest in God and his promises and His faithfulness and his 1139 01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:51,000 provision? Are you trusting? 1140 01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,240 It might not seem like enough. You might see God's permitted 1141 01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:59,440 provision and you might not be satisfied in that. 1142 01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:04,480 But this passage is telling us that it is enough that that what 1143 01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:08,440 God has provided for you in your life is what we should be 1144 01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:12,120 resting on is is what we should be resting in. 1145 01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:16,400 And honestly, more than that. But it's probably just us taking 1146 01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:19,280 God's plans and saying, Yep, this, this is good. 1147 01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:20,600 But you know what would be better? 1148 01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:24,080 I saw. If you had most of it figured 1149 01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:25,680 out, let me help you the rest of the way. 1150 01:02:26,120 --> 01:02:27,240 Right. Yeah. 1151 01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:31,480 And that's our arrogance and our pride and our selfishness, Yeah. 1152 01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:34,840 You know, there's a, there's a verse and I'm, I'm failing, I do 1153 01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:36,600 this all the time. I'm failing to remember where it 1154 01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:39,240 comes from. But you know, we, we here in the 1155 01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:42,160 Bible don't put the Lord to the test, but another place we here 1156 01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:45,680 put him to the test. Give in other words, give 1157 01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:49,320 generously and watch how God fills your storehouses. 1158 01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:53,120 So in this particular case on Sabbath, you know what, why 1159 01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:55,960 don't you put God to the test? Why don't you actually take a 1160 01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:59,800 day to Sabbath and why don't you put them to the test and see if 1161 01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:03,520 those productivity things increase exponentially? 1162 01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:07,320 If the results increase exponentially because you 1163 01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:13,120 trusted Him, you put this not a theory, wrong word, but you put 1164 01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:16,800 His word to the test to see. All right Lord, if I actually 1165 01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:21,400 Sabbath with you, will you not make everything more productive? 1166 01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:24,880 Will you not make my time that I am on even better than it has 1167 01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:28,240 been so that I can continue to rest in you man? 1168 01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:30,640 Why don't you put God to the test and actually take a day and 1169 01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,880 find out? So the verse, the verse you're 1170 01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:35,720 talking about, I think is Malachi 310. 1171 01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:37,960 There you go. It says bring the full tithe 1172 01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:40,320 into the storehouse that there may be food in my house and 1173 01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:43,160 thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of host. 1174 01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:46,200 If I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down 1175 01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:50,600 for you a blessing until there is no more need again. 1176 01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:54,440 And the reminder of everything that we have already belongs to 1177 01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:59,720 God, bringing our first and our best back to him. 1178 01:03:59,720 --> 01:04:01,440 And that includes our time, right? 1179 01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:04,800 That's that's not just earthly resource that includes our time. 1180 01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:08,080 So bring the full tithe even of your time into the storehouse 1181 01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:10,320 that there may be food in my house and thereby put me to the 1182 01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:13,520 test. See if I will not rain down 1183 01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:15,240 blessing for you until there's no more need. 1184 01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:18,280 Come on, that's faith, church. That's stepping out. 1185 01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:20,840 Man, that is so good. Good. 1186 01:04:20,840 --> 01:04:22,720 That was, that was back in the recesses there. 1187 01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:26,920 But I'm not going to remember in verses, I just remember key 1188 01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:30,120 ideas. So good, man. 1189 01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:31,920 All right. We got to be better at Sabbath 1190 01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:34,720 thing I do. You're doing. 1191 01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:36,800 You've taken a really good stance lately. 1192 01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:40,080 You've taken some hardline. This is my day off, darn it. 1193 01:04:40,360 --> 01:04:42,520 I know. And this week I will be put to 1194 01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:46,880 the test a little bit because, you know, I'm, I'm really trying 1195 01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:50,840 hard to protect. Well, Tuesday in particular, I'm 1196 01:04:50,840 --> 01:04:52,000 trying really hard to protect it. 1197 01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:55,040 But I'm already thinking like, man, Monday's so busy, blah, 1198 01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:56,280 blah. You know what I could do 1199 01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:58,760 tomorrow? And it'll actually kind of it'll 1200 01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,440 be work and it'll be Sabbath, but let me just spend some time 1201 01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:04,200 with like the sermon text. Like that's how I'm going to 1202 01:05:04,200 --> 01:05:06,880 like be in God's words tomorrow. But like I. 1203 01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:09,640 Have you have an agenda though? I have an agenda though, so I I 1204 01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:12,440 need to be real careful with my heart, you know, with that. 1205 01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:15,000 So I'll do my best. OK, we're learning and going 1206 01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,440 together with your church. One more thing, if you've 1207 01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:20,920 noticed the kind of bookshelf out here in the atrium area. 1208 01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:26,080 ERC pics wanting to give you some extra biblical resources 1209 01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:29,560 that are rooted in scripture that that are written biblically 1210 01:05:29,560 --> 01:05:33,200 with it with a biblical worldview on the four FS that 1211 01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:35,800 we're focusing on growing in faith, family, fitness and 1212 01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:38,560 finances. Those books are out there for 1213 01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:41,680 you to we we recommend them wholeheartedly for you to 1214 01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:44,200 improve in those areas. If you would like resources 1215 01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:47,920 about faith, family, fitness and finances and again, fitness, 1216 01:05:48,440 --> 01:05:51,280 physical fitness, but also like mental, emotional, that whole 1217 01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:53,600 like temple of God sort of thing. 1218 01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:57,600 All of those facets are involved in involved in fitness as God 1219 01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,640 created us. Those resources on the shelf are 1220 01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:02,400 there for you to hold in your hands. 1221 01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:05,240 We're not selling them here, but like for you to be able to leave 1222 01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:07,120 through the book and be like, hey, no, this is something I 1223 01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:09,680 would check out. You're welcome to check those 1224 01:06:09,680 --> 01:06:12,480 out each and every week and look at them and, and there's a 1225 01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:15,400 little QR code for that's got an Amazon link for you to buy them 1226 01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:17,360 for yourselves there. If that's something you'd 1227 01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:19,400 ultimately like to do. Don't don't take the actual 1228 01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:22,440 copies with you usually. But I only say this to say there 1229 01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:24,920 is one book out there. It's a children's devo. 1230 01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:31,160 It's called a roar and we found a crazy awesome Amazon day deal 1231 01:06:31,160 --> 01:06:33,600 on them and we would like to gift them to you as a 1232 01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,360 congregation, especially for those of you who have little 1233 01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:39,040 ones, children or or grandchildren that you have 1234 01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:42,040 spiritual influence over. Me and my family worked through 1235 01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:44,840 this roar book. There's a Part 2 of it called 1236 01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:48,080 Marvel at the Moon, but Roar Like a Lion. 1237 01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:50,920 There's a stack of about 20 of them out there on the shelf. 1238 01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:54,440 Those are yours to take church if you if you would like to have 1239 01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:58,160 a copy of this family Devo, we just we read it at breakfast 1240 01:06:58,160 --> 01:06:59,560 time. It takes about 5 minutes. 1241 01:06:59,640 --> 01:07:02,120 Family breakfast together, starting the word, some good 1242 01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:05,160 thoughts to send out the kids on their school day with. 1243 01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:09,280 And yeah, want to encourage you and build you up in some good 1244 01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:11,800 healthy family household rhythms there too. 1245 01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:14,560 That's awesome. I love I I love the fact that 1246 01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:17,280 you found this awesome deal and we can give some of those away. 1247 01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:21,600 I'll, I'll, I'll give a I'll give a quick plug here to some 1248 01:07:21,600 --> 01:07:23,000 of the books that we're recommending. 1249 01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:28,520 We do have those in our library, which is kind of nestled in back 1250 01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:31,720 in our gym fellowship hall. So you can find some of them 1251 01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:33,680 back there if you don't want to buy them, but to just. 1252 01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:34,760 Check them out to just bring them. 1253 01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:36,480 Back, yeah, and please bring them back. 1254 01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:39,920 But some of those some of those library work, please, some of 1255 01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,920 those resources are back there. So you know, give give the 1256 01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:45,520 library a little love some time and and check that out too. 1257 01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:49,840 Yeah, So who we went long today, little we got a little extra 1258 01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,360 extra leftovers. I don't, I don't have an actual 1259 01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:56,760 timer on this but I think we're close to like hour 10 right now. 1260 01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:58,440 Is it cuz? I talked about sad eating. 1261 01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:02,520 That was part of it, and that's part of the reason why we left. 1262 01:08:02,560 --> 01:08:04,840 Went over OK. Oh man. 1263 01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:07,080 Now you notice that I've got the hat trick. 1264 01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:08,760 I've now brought it up three times. 1265 01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,000 Yeah, see, you're, well, it's lunchtime now. 1266 01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:13,360 You're, you're probably a little hangry and you're going to have 1267 01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:15,160 to eat alone because I'm not going to eat with you. 1268 01:08:15,240 --> 01:08:20,319 So. Oh man, thanks for listening 1269 01:08:20,319 --> 01:08:22,439 along church. So grateful to be a part of this 1270 01:08:22,439 --> 01:08:26,520 community with you for His glory and for our good. 1271 01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:28,160 Let's stay rude in the word together. 1272 01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:28,800 Have a great week.